Associate Programs Newsletter #297
A fast way to be your own boss, Google craziness, disabled blogs, and how to find new profitable niches.
It’s all in in today’s issue…
CONTENTS:
1. Do you want to be your own boss – this month?
2. Google’s craziness: AdWords advertisers feel the pain
3. Super affiliate’s blog disabled
4. Intriguing way to find profitable niches
5. Having a whale of a time
6. Thought for today: Piggy-backing
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1. Do you want to be your own boss – this month?
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Do you want to get on a really fast track to being your own boss?
I’ve just been watching an outstanding DVD which shows you how.
It’s a video taken at an impromptu meeting held during a marketing seminar in Washington.
Thirteen of the big name guys were lured into a room, and given a challenge…
How would you produce $30K in 30 days, starting from scratch?
They were told…
* You have access to your knowledge.
* You have access to your computer.
* You DON’T have access to your list.
* You DON’T have access to your contacts.
* Your budget is $500.
What would you do?
There was a LOT of heavyweight talent in the room. These guys generate a combined revenue of about $30M a year.
You’ll probably recognize most of them:
Anik Singal
Tom Bell
Mike Filsaime
Jeff Mulligan
Tim Erway
Gary Ambrose
Tellman Knudson
Jim Lillig
John Alanis
Jonathan Mizel
Mike Dillard
Russell Brunson
Kevin Wilke
I must admit that when I ordered the DVD, I wasn’t expecting too much – perhaps just a few gems I hadn’t heard before.
Instead, what happened was that these guys took this challenge in their stride. They were already quite familiar with dreaming up, creating and launching products VERY fast.
They talked about product launches which had generated 20K in 3 days, $87K in 6 days, and $10K using someone else’s product, which wasn’t even new.
You’d normally pay thousands of dollars to go to a conference and mingle with these guys – and then you’d need to know the right questions to ask to get them talking.
Imagine… You’re in a room with 13 of the Internet’s smartest marketers.
What would you ask them?
On this video, all the right questions are asked for you.
The result: Ideas poured out of these guys.
I suspect a bit of one-upmanship was involved, and they were competing to show us just how much they know.
I have to warn you that every little detail you need isn’t on this video. That would be impossible. You’ll have to do some research and fill in some gaps yourself.
What they do provide is a marketing plan which tells you exactly how to research, create and market a product in a month – or maybe a lot less than a month. Very impressive.
If you don’t go to Internet marketing seminars often and haven’t met most of the big name marketers, you’ll find this DVD fascinating.
If you do go to conferences, and know some of these guys, I also think you’ll find it fascinating.
It’s like being there, right in the room, as a new project is planned by some of the smartest marketing minds online.
If you’re a perfectionist, you’re told to get over it.
This isn’t about spending six months writing an ebook which might make only $1,000 a month.
It’s all about researching a market, tapping into other people’s expertise, and creating a profitable product VERY fast.
You’d think that with 13 smart marketers, you might end up with 13 different plans. However, their brainstorming results in just ONE, highly efficient, proven plan. They take you through it, step by step.
Best of all, by the time they’ve finished polishing the plan, they’ve told you not just how to create one product, but how to create a business which has several income streams – all from one idea.
They’ve also told you how to identify a market so that your business will last for years.
At the end of the DVD, you’re challenged: “Start doing this now.”
You have 30 days.
You’ll want to watch this DVD several times and take notes. It’s that good.
https://www.associateprograms.com/30kin30days
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2. Google’s craziness: AdWords advertisers feel the pain
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Affiliates and other Internet marketers who advertise using Google’s AdWords are feeling the pain.
In some cases they’re being told by Google that if they want their ads to be displayed they’ll have to pay 5 times, 10 times, or more what they were paying.
For example, I know one affiliate who was asked to pay $5 per click for a keyword which no one else was targeting.
If you’re using AdWords, Google now insists you must provide “relevant and substantial content” – even if doing so harms your business.
It’s all about increasing the user’s experience.
Here’s the background…
Analyzing the Google AdWords Landing Page Algorithm
https://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3622950
Is Google Shooting Itself in the Foot?
https://www.searchengineguide.com/searchbrief/senews/008080.html
Forums discussions:
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=110213
https://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/3016719.htm
Squeeze pages – those short pages which tempt you to hand over an email address before you receive the goodies – are among those targeted by Google.
If you use squeeze pages, you’ll know that short, very simple pages work effectively.
Now Google is messing with your business model, telling you that you need to add more content and even links to your squeeze page.
So you’re being told to add a whole lot of distractions which will inevitably lower your conversion rate.
This is crazy.
Imagine you own a shop in Main Street, YourTown, and want to advertise in the local paper. The newspaper’s ad rep looks down his nose at your shop and says: “Your business looks scruffy. You need to paint the building. Until you do, you’ll have to pay $500 instead of the usual $50.”
That’s how Google is dictating to you.
Google created a monster when it created AdSense.
It seems to have failed to anticipate the flood of trashy sites that would be created just for AdSense. It also seems to have failed to anticipate junk PPC arbitrage sites which aim to buy cheap keywords and earn revenue from expensive keywords.
While trying to clear up the mess it created, Google is punishing innocent, good businesses.
Here’s the best report I’ve seen on the AdWords changes. It’s a special report by AffiliateClassroom which tells you several things you can do to solve the problem.
You can download it here, no email address required…
How to Survive the Google AdWords Update of July 2006
https://www.associateprograms.com/adwords-update
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3. Super affiliate’s blog disabled
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You’ve heard it before, but here’s another warning…
It isn’t safe to use Blogger for your affiliate blog.
Super affiliate Jeremy Palmer’s Blogger-powered blog has been disabled by Google’s “Spam Prevention Robot”.
The blog was hosted on his site. He was using Blogger to manage the posts.
Now, he told Revenews, he’s switching to WordPress.
This is yet another warning that if you’re using Blogger you run the risk of having your blog disabled, whether you’re doing anything wrong or not.
After all, you can’t trust a robot to make the right decisions.
In some cases, it’s easy to get a disabled blog online again. In other cases, dozens of blogs are simply deleted, with no chance for an appeal.
You need something better than Blogger. The answer most affiliates are turning to is WordPress.
WordPress has a longer learning curve than Blogger.
You can ease the pain by using these good tutorial videos…
https://www.associateprograms.com/wordpress-tutorials
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4. Intriguing way to find profitable niches
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Here’s an intriguing way to find profitable niches.
What makes it really interesting is that the starting point is the frequently changing Wikipedia homepage.
This means that you’ll end up considering niches which wouldn’t normally be on the radar.
It also means that this technique may work well one day and horribly the next.
Profitable niches in under 10 minutes
https://www.seoprotoolz.com/profitable_niches_in_under_10_minutes
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5. Having a whale of a time
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“You’ve just got to mention this,” my wife, Joanna, said today.
We were whale-watching from our apartment, sitting in our living room watching a pod of humpback whales put on an awesome display.
They were spouting and frolicking, often throwing themselves right out of the sea and making huge splashes.
A whale can weigh 25 to 40 tons, so as you can imagine an adult makes a mighty big splash.
For us, whale-watching is one of the benefits of working from home and being able to choose when and where we live.
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6. Thought for today: Piggy-backing
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“The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years learning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.” – Brian Tracy.
All the best
Allan Gardyne
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